The phrase "a decision to lay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a choice or resolution to place something down or to dismiss someone from a position.
Example: "The board made a decision to lay off several employees due to budget cuts."
Alternatives: "a choice to dismiss" or "a resolution to terminate".
At a certain moment he agent-causes a decision to tell the truth, and until he does there remains a chance that he will instead, at that moment, agent-cause a decision to lie.
There is, then, a possible world that is exactly like the actual world up until the time at which Leo agent-causes his decision but in which, at that moment, Leo agent-causes a decision to lie.
If in fact Leo's causing his decision constitutes his exercising free will, then the difference between his causing a decision to tell the truth and his causing a decision to lie is not just a matter of luck; it is a matter of how Leo exercises his free will.
The strike came just a few days after officials in the euro zone approved the release of 2.8 billion euros, or $3.7 billion, in rescue financing for Greece after Parliament ratified a new raft of economic reforms, including a politically contentious decision to lay off 15,000 civil servants by the end of next year.
Hyatt Hotels is facing a wave of anger and protests as a result of its decision to lay off 98 members of its housekeeping staff at three Boston area hotels and replace them with lower paid workers.
The decision to lay a crisscross of numbers over the city without any breaks for public squares, plazas, or parks — a deliberately brutal nod to the governing principle of commerce — is why we still, sadly, call any awkward and accidental space created by the diagonal of Broadway intersecting an avenue a "square".
Officials at the prosecution service have said that a crucial factor in the decision to lay criminal charges in the case came last month when The Sunday Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, abandoned an appeal against a court order requiring it to hand over a cache of e-mails that had passed between Ms. Pryce and the newspaper, and delivered the e-mails to investigators.
His decision to lay a wreath on the grave of Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, who envisioned a Jewish state, has pleased Israelis and upset Palestinians in equal measure.
But Mr. Visnick said Mr. Chaconas had brought much of it on himself by making enemies of those who might have helped him, including leaders of the teachers' union, who had a break with him over his decision to lay off hundreds of teachers this year.
They refer to the process that firms have to follow from the decision to lay off a worker to the actual termination of the contract.
